All love stories are frustration stories. As are all stories about parents and children, which are also love stories, in Freud's view, the formative love stories. To fall in love is to be reminded of...
The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for.
A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.